Lead a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that delight our customers and contribute to our mission to help Britain prosper.
Be a technical leader within your feature team, providing day-to-day line management, as well as providing leadership in the wider Lab and community, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers, helping them to grow.
You’ll lead and inspire teams to explore, adopt and responsibly integrate AI-driven solutions to achieve great customer outcomes and improve our engineering experience.
Collaborate with product and engineering leads to realise the Lab’s vision and deliver customer outcomes through robust, scalable, and maintainable services that underpin exceptional customer experiences.
Be curious about technology and look to foster a culture of innovation. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery, helping to grow our junior engineers capabilities and understanding of target architectures and patterns.
Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP.
Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus & REST APIs, hosting microservices in a container orchestration platform such as Kubernetes.
Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale.
Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.
You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.
Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
Any experience of mobile native development would be beneficial

Lead Software Engineer

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